Top NDA leaders met in the capital on Wednesday where they discussed the need to effectively counter the Opposition's narrative against the government on Ambedkar and the Constitution.
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The section says "When the day on which a promissory note or bill of exchange is at maturity is a public holiday, the instrument shall be deemed to be due on the next preceding, business day".
Ajgaonkar was speaking in the Goa Assembly on Monday during the motion congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Parliament.
Tributes to Babasaheb (as he was popularly called), who dedicated his life for social justice, on his Mahaparinirvana (usually referred to the ultimate state of nirvana).
"For development of villages, Panchayat Raj Institutions need to be strengthened," Rijiju said at a function here on occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day.
"On behalf of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), I commend India on celebrating this important anniversary at the UN," UNDP Administrator Helen Clark said.
"Dump SP, BJP in the Assembly elections. Not just that, you ensure that their candidates forfeit their security deposits," Mayawati said at a public meeting on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar.
The Prime Minister also compared Constitution architect B R Ambedkar to Martin Luther King who had fought for the rights of blacks.
Despite his return coming with riders and the bail being interim, supporters described it as a triumph for truth and the cause for saving democracy and the university, a message their posters conveyed as well.
On the design details, the obverse of the coin will bear the Lion Capitol of Ashoka Pillar in the centre with the legend 'Satyamev Jayate' inscribed below, flanked on the left periphery with the word 'Bharat' in Devnagri script.
The coins were issued on his death anniversary, which is being observed as "Mahaparinirvan Divas of Babasaheb Ambedkar".
"Our government is leaving no stone unturned to fulfil the vision & dreams of Dr Ambedkar to create a prosperous & inclusive India," Modi said in a series of tweets.
The opposition attack is set to gain momentum from next Monday when the government brings its legislative agenda on the table after a two-day special sitting to discuss Constitution and its maker B R Ambedkar on his 125th birth anniversary. The government has called an all-party meeting today.
In the first leg of the tour, he will travel to Britain where he will hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron and visit the house in London where Dalit icon B R Ambedkar had lived.
Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor Suhas Palshikar in the wake of the row over B R Ambedkar's cartoon have been sent to two days police custody by a court here.
Amid uproar in Parliament over a cartoon of B R Ambedkar in NCERT textbooks, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today "apologised" over the objectionable content, saying he has directed removal of the material and stoppage of distribution of books.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today 'apologised' for a cartoon of B R Ambedkar in NCERT textbooks, saying he has directed removal of the material and stoppage of distribution of books.